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[G1 Android Development] arqueware:
I concur. 90% of recent posts are newbies with no linux experience complaining about A2SD not working. It's no wonder JF stopped being involved on the forum.
[G1 Android Development] DOHCtor:
I'm running JF v1.5 with my apps and dalvik-cache moved to sd (not data though) and just downloaded that star app. Works perfectly fine. I didn't use an app to move my a2sd though, I did it through adb.
[G1 Android Development] wyseman76:
While I understand the poster's frustration this topic could/should simply be narrowed down to a rant about people rating apps based on user error or poor judgment.

The large volume of rooted/apps to sd users in the android community is directly proportional to the poorly thought out memory amounts of the G1 phone. So in this case there will continue to be a lot more average joes to contend with.

So, before the Newbs are burned at the stake remember this is a symptom of a problem created by the very progenitors of the Android platform, they are responsible for the hordes of ill equipped G1 toting Linux newbs.
[G1 Android Development] jashsu:
Seems like you're confusing proportionality with causality. However, sure I completely agree that a lot of the hacks on the xda-dev forums are a result of hackers wanting to fill in the gaps of stock Android. Necessity is the mother of invention, as it were. To that extent, I am not against the unsanctioned development of hacks for Android. In fact, I wholeheartedly support it. Android's openness (despite root-jails for carrier branded phones) is one of its unique strengths.

What I am railing against is newbies who jump right into a hack without reading the instructions and hackers who release hacks without enough testing or carefully written and concise documentation. That's somewhat like giving a loaded gun to a toddler. (Sorry for the melodramatic and cliche simile.)
[G1 Android Development] MontAlbert:
i agree totally- i try and mark those kind of messages as spam on the market,.... i wonder how people actually rooted their phones if they are unwilling to read a bit more info.....
[G1 Android Development] JaboJG:
I've run both the symlink version of A2SD and the unionfs version. I set up both from command line, not the apps. I have no issues at all with Google Sky Map or indeed any other programs at the moment.

Personally, I blame the A2SD apps for the problems other users are having.
[G1 Android Development] bestwebs:
Hi,

I use 5.02h R4 app2sd with the above method and no problems with force closes with 65 apps installed.

It helps to use a class 6 card also.

Just used basic command lines, no scripts.

:)
[G1 Android Development] prettyboy85712:
I used the script and have everything moved to my sdcard. The result after installation of the app was an error message stating Sky Map wasn't installed. I then decided to reboot and the app worked fine.
[G1 Android Development] JaboJG:
Just an addition to my post, I moved everything to SD - dalvik-cache, /data/data etc and no problems at all.
[G1 Android Development] Chahk:
The browser force-closed on me, where can I rate it 1*?
[G1 Android Development] Rekna:
I have a feeling that a lot of the crashes/force closes are due to the speed of the SD card. Let's face it the OS expects a certain read speed and the SD cards can't quite keep up (class 6 works most of the time). When the OS issues a command and it doesn't execute in a given amount of time it assumes the app has crashed and posts a message asking if you want to force close it. Of course the correct answer is to hit wait.

It would be nice if the OS hackers could find out where this time limit is set and tweak it to be a bit more forgiving. This would probably solve a whole lot of problems people are seeing.
[G1 Android Development] Seeknay747:
I am using JS 1.5, and I created the Symbolic Links using the Terminal Emulator. I moved Apps and Apps-Private. And Removed the respective folders from System. 95% of my apps work as is, I think I had to remove a couple for cupcake reasons, no biggie.

That SKY Program didn't work for me. I am going to try reinstalling it, and see what happeneds. Otherwise someone here said they also moved Dalvik-Cache, I may try that. I was assuming this was always a Cupcake Compatibility problem.

Edit: Using Class 6 MicroSD Formatted 7.5Gb FAT32 / 450MB Ext2
[G1 Android Development] jleake:
Just throwing in a my 2 cents. I have no problems with A2SD. Only issue that i've had is with open home, seemed like it slowed everything down. Never force closed just seemed slower than when it was ran normally.
[G1 Android Development] Seeknay747:
I don't think this is always the issue though. Specifically with this App on my phone. Wait will do nothing. As soon as you launch the App, it come up with Force Close Immediately. Almost like it expected to find data / something, somewhere and didn't so it had to close.

I dunno if this is a possibility with Symbolic Links, but maybe it saw the Symbolic Link and instead of following it, saw it wasn't a directory and crashed? While it was looking, or trying to store cache data perhaps?
[G1 Android Development] brandenk:
I must say, trying to go to appstosd was one of the biggest headaches Ive ever experienced hugely because of the problems listed here. I have been through just about problem you can experience with appstosd and because I wanted to understand what was going on I finally figured it all out and have been able to run appstosd flawlessly for days now. All you need is to accept trial and error and BACK EVERYTHING UP!!!
[G1 Android Development] Seeknay747:
If I may say so, this was pretty vague. If you had the intention of helping others learn from your mistakes, you could if you wanted, describe the problems you ran into and explain how you fixed them.

For me specifically, I seem to have everything working except this one particular App in question (Sky Maps).
[G1 Android Development] Rekna:
I agree, that time to access isn't the only problem but it is definitely one of the major issues people are seeing.
[G1 Android Development] ryan75:
I've always wondered what the benefit of moving /data/apps, /data or the dalvik-cache to the SD card is. I currently only have the market, maps, street and browser caches on my card and I haven't noticed a performance improvement. Either that, or the half-second or so longer it took before I moved the caches wasn't an issue in the first place.

One one hand, it makes sense to have as much RAM as possible available to the OS, but is there really a substantial benefit to having 45MB free versus the 75MB free with everything on your SD card? I'd be interested to see a basic benchmark comparison of some everyday tasks (and maybe even a couple stress test scenarios) proving that the benefits outweigh the (possible) headache.

I'd happily put my 8GB class6 card to work if the gain was anything more than cosmetic, since that's what I bought it for.
[G1 Android Development] Rekna:
It is not about speed gain (as there is a speed loss). It is about being able to install unlimited numbers of apps. Without apps2sd people run out of memory very fast. With that been said there is no reason to move your caches to the SD if you move your apps. In fact i'd say it is a bad idea to move any sort of cache to the SD. SD cards have a limited number of writes, if you move a volatile file system onto an SD card you are going to destroy your SD card quickly.
[G1 Android Development] ryan75:
Thanks alot for the info! I was always under the impression that freeing system memory was to improve performance, no clue why I thought that(shows how little I know).

Personally, until there are a bunch of 5-star must have apps and I run out of space, I'll probably wait.

Thanks for the heads up on the cache too, I wonder if the random oddness I've been seeing in the market has something to do with this. I'll probably move it back tonight.
[G1 Android Development] MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com:
Personally I've been using a class 2 16GB sd card with no problems at all, not even any noticeable lag in using anything. From my experience(and I've had a lot of it as many of you know) about 90% of the problems arise from either user error or a faulty partition with a more recent heavy emphasis on the latter.
[G1 Android Development] bhang:
me too...

I have tons of apps and have yet to see any over mem messages since I first got it and was testing 3 different dev apps that all to the same thing looking for what I like

we will be able to use the SD for apps sometime, hell palm os 4 could do that no problem, and even converted the flash into a R/W FS of sorts...

If you have A2SD, you better know a good bit of linux or just live with less apps, a2sd has gotten to easy, people who shouldn't be able to do that are leeching off those who can...A2SD is for the bleeding edge types, not cause you need everydamn comic book on the market.

bhang
[G1 Android Development] Dimath:
Try to install "Wifi Helper" with unionfs a2sd. Don't work for me this way whatever I do. Works with symlinks.
[G1 Android Development] wyseman76:
Nope, proportion is exactly what i mean, while the memory issue is the cause of the rooters the number of them is proportional to the amount of memory available on the device. 50 megs of space inconveniences X amount of people, while 25 megs inconveniences Y amount of people.

Again I completely agree that unwarranted negative reviews are ridiculous, but a side effect we all have to live with.
[G1 Android Development] MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com:
Hmm works perfectly for me. Have you applied the latest script(protected app fix)?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mokotoy:
So as I finished a phone conversation, i pressed the power button once (sleep), then pressed it again...then all of a sudden my phone went weird on me!

It went "Rainbow Screen" on me... a red, green, blue & white stripe appeared with the word "serial" on the white part and the words:

"

KAIS1*0

SPL-1.56.0000

CPLD-8

"

what could that mean?!?

I tried doing a hard reset but it would just go right back to the screen

I tried plugging it to the computer but the word "serial" would just turn into "USB" and would do nothing else...

what could be going wrong!?!:confused: I don't even know what I did...

any help would be great!! thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] denco7:
You need to reflash your rom and read this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=423486
[HTC Excalibur] xdarocking:
Hi,

I am facing a problem with my Tmobile DASH.It got suddenly bricked.Hard reset didn't work.It freezes when it gets booted at the Tmobile screen before loading the windows mobile screen itself.I tried to flash the ROM by holding the camera key and plugging the USB cable.I got tri color screen (bootloader) and tried to install the ROM from Tmobile itself.It got installed to 100%. and got switched off automatically.When I tried to power on it is not powering on,battery is fully charged.(even I can't make it to bootloader screen),please HELP me....:confused:
[HTC Excalibur] xdarocking:
Someone..please HELP me
[HTC Excalibur] eran.chason@gmail.com:
depanding on the rom u use, it might be other key combination for the boot loader. try holding the center key and press the on off for LESS then 3 sec. its either that or the two soft keys + the power on off, again for less then 3 sec
[HTC Excalibur] xdarocking:
thanks Eran.I tried with the options you have mentioned but still facing the same issue..the phone is not turning ON..I flashed the ROM with this version

T-Mobile_Dash_Software_Update_1.22.531.4.
[HTC Excalibur] vettejock99:
Same problem here, but I was flashing one of the other new ROMs. Other than that, same issues and same result. Any chance you fixed it? I am hoping it just screwed my battery and I can buy another....
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
Greetings, fellow CDMA Raphael and Diamond users!

Those of you who use third party audio players are, I'm sure, well aware of the infamous audio lag on our devices.

A few weeks ago, HTC released a fix for this issue, but it did not work on CDMA devices -- in fact, it screws your device is you install it.

Well, I spent way too much time reverse engineering the fix to see if I could find a way to adapt the fix to the CDMA version of OEM_Misc.dll (the file that is installed in the fix). Initially, I met with failure. But recently, I revisited the idea and, unbelievably (at least to me), I have managed to produce a version of OEM_Misc.dll compatible with CDMA devices that does not have the audio skip problem!

Okay, before installing, please be advised that there is still a possibility that this fix may mess up your device, requiring a hard reset. I've only tested this on one phone (mine) so I don't exactly have a large test pool yet. lol. Also, I'm not responsible if your phone crashes, bricks, blows up, or anything else. :-)

Now that all of that is out of the way, onto the fix!

I whipped up a cab which will replace the ROM OEM_Misc.dll with the version I hacked to get it fixed. Before you install the cab, you must install the sdkcerts.cab first because all drivers MUST be signed and that is the XDA de-facto standard for signing DLLs. :-)

Okay, to reiterate!

1. DO NOT INSTALL THIS FIX IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CDMA PHONE!

2. YOU MUST INSTALL SDKCERTS FIRST!

Enjoy! And please report your experiences.

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[Touch Pro CDMA] codydavis22:
I might try this out. I'm not sure if it will work though because i have 9 gigs of music on my 16 gig storage card. I think that is the reason that it goes slow sometimes. Also, I am running a custom rom....would this file have to be renamed in order to work? I know that sometimes chefs change the names of stuff.
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
No, I doubt it has been renamed. OEM_Misc.dll is a system driver that, among other things, handles charging your phone, updating registry state for various phone properties, etc. I don't know the full scope of what it does because it's hard to tell what something is doing in assembly language, but that's what I discovered. The bug that was fixed was setting a certain timed event that happens every five minutes to a lower thread priority, so the audio driver doesn't skip.

The attached file will ONLY fix the "five minute skip" bug -- nothing else. For example, HTC Audio Manager has been reported having problems playing certain high-bit MP3s sometimes. This won't fix that. It also won't fix slow storage cards leading to buffer lags.

Also, on CDMA systems (at least stock ROMs), the HTC Audio Manager (music TF3D tab) has a special work-around where it plays at a higher priority than the five minute timer, so it doesn't skip. This is only intended if you use third party audio players (like Pocket Player) which don't have that capability.
[Touch Pro CDMA] phreaq:
I installed this patch with success on my Telus Diamond, I held my breath, and got past the boot screen :D

music plays, not sure about any skips as of yet as I'm at work and can't test it out, but.... since the HTC patch messed up my phone, I tried MightyROM 4.7 and don't think I noticed a skip since then :confused:
[Touch Pro CDMA] TheDempster:
Has anyone else tested this with success? I guess I would like to know what exactly the DLL change does?
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
Not to be an ass, but follow the links in the top post. It explains all.

And yea, it works. Of course, I created it, so obviously I'd say that. ;-)
[Touch Pro CDMA] TheDempster:
Did not mean to insult you thx1200. Thanks for all the effort, I read the links, and obviously you put some time into this. You folks that have development skills amaze me.

I am going to give this a whirl. I use core player, and it skips, as you mentioned, every 5 min.

Appreciate the effort
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
No hard feelings dude!! It's just that's a very common (over asked) question on posts here at xda! :-D

I hope it works for you! Let me know how it works out!
[Touch Pro CDMA] Soaa-:
How'd I miss this? I'll cook it into my ROM and see if WMP still skips.

Thanks!
[Touch Pro CDMA] egzthunder1:
Over asking things??? At XDA?!?!?! Are you nuts???

I no longer have a Herman, but I will post this in my guide when I see more feedback on this fix. Good job!!!!
[Touch Pro CDMA] discipler:
I'm going to try it because I have the issue with the music sucking because of the skipping. I have never had this problem with my Touch Pro until recently.

I am going to try it also because I have another problem in Windows Media Player: when streaming radio stations, it only goes for about 3 or 4 minutes and then stops. I used to stream on my phones for hours. On this one too. But now for the past month or so I have this problem of it stopping.
[Touch Pro CDMA] discipler:
Thanks, but I tried and it didn't stop the skipping. I downloaded both cabs and after the second, the device restarted. I then tried playing mp3 file in WMP and skipping just as bad. Try and try again.
[Touch Pro CDMA] phreaq:
I meant to reply last week, but forgot, anyhow....

I recently loaded Juicy 8 on my diamond, as well as Kinoma Play (I don't use wmp). I had the skipping problem, badly. At least every minute of playback would have some kind of skip.

I applied the patch and no more skipping. I must have heard about 10 hours of playback since the patch.
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
I'm glad! Is Juicy 8 a WM 6.1 or WM 6.5 ROM? I'm curious because I haven't heard if it works (or is even needed) on a 6.5 ROM yet. I recently started running MightyROM6 (WM6.5 based), which doesn't seem to have the skip issue and as far as I know it doesn't use my hack. Maybe WM 6.5's architecture is more realtime reliable? (speculating)

Anyway, let me know.
[Touch Pro CDMA] Darrell262:
You know, its funny, you read lag issues with playing music

I think, I just got this phone, I don't think it lags. I was using the stock music player built in. I downloaded Nitrogen music player, went to work on the bus with those awesome quality headphones the phone comes with and was listening to metallica, and to my suprise, it sounded like the worse ever downloaded mp3 I'd ever heard. skips, bleeps etc. like someone had a scrached cd when they encoded it or something.

Then I remember there was a fix for it, but only GSM phones, and then I sorta remembered about a fix for cdma phones... I get home and search for it and wow. I found the page.

Thank you. I am already *****y about the phone's inability to recieve txt picture messages (telus) and this fix makes me content for now.

And I have been listening to metallica for about 10 min, I havn't heard any lag issues.

Thanks again!
[Touch Pro CDMA] sixbennetts:
Anybody wanna hazard a guess as to whether this would work on my Verizon Ozone?
[Touch Pro CDMA] thx1200:
Verizon is CDMA. That's what this was designed for. :-) I'd be a little surprised if it works on a WM Standard device, but hey! It's worth a shot! Just be prepared to have to hard reset, in case it doesn't work...

EDIT: Also, I am not an expert and I am not responsible for bricking your phone, etc. Usual disclaimer.
[Touch Pro CDMA] sixbennetts:
Thnx, thx! Not quite brave enough to try it now, maybe after my next reset.

I'll post results when.

*Edit*

Nope, no luck. tried it before a hard reset, wouldn't restart past the HTC screen. Same for after the reset.

:-(

Thanks anyways.
[HTC Cavalier] ipaqonline:
I know this is not a new question. I have look thru the forum. There is way to relacing the file like ms_splash.png or Dopod320X240_0908.bmp in the WINDOWS folder.

But doesn't make the very first boot screen change.

Anyone have any idea ?
[HTC Cavalier] ipaqonline:
Finally, I got it from the method Excalibur forum..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=413872&highlight=splash+screen
[G1 General] vinterchaos:
I'm looking for clear cut answers....

I used to flash the roms on my windows mobile phones, mainly because they just ran 10x better (and had more space) with those then the standard issue.... everyone screams root for the g1, though with the cupcake 1.5 coming out within a matter of days, am I missing the point of rooting at this time?

its probably out there somewhere, but I'm sick of scattered old answers, feel free to drop knowledge and flames on me haha :cool:
[G1 General] jashsu:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=442480

Blah blah search blah blah sticky posts blah you're a gd lazy {expletive} blah. I think that pretty much covers it?
[G1 General] vinterchaos:
well, heh.. i guess its pretty much all the same

don't need apps to sd, i use maybe 5

don't need the tether

don't need the wireless router

screenshot is pointless

auto rotate comes w/ cupcake doesn't it? o_O

custom boot image sounds cool though heh, not sure its worth it for me at this point i suppose
[G1 General] jashsu:
Ya, system-wide autorotate. Another nicety of rooting is you can modify your hosts file to do things like ad-blocking.

The list of user benefits for root access isn't particularly long. Most people are well-served by standard builds.
[G1 General] Shrivel:
At this point, the only reason I MUST have root is for tethering. The apps to SD is nice, but I find that I usually only use a handful of apps anyway so I'll likely go back to apps in internal memory the next time I flash a new build, unless the new method gets to be more stable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wapvirus:
I found this very handy tool to help with generating Hex color codes for use in webpages and XML. Just slide the trackbars to mix colors in the box at the top, and the hex code for your desired color is shown underneath simple

Developer:

http://www.kateglover.co.uk/

Download:

http://www.kateglover.co.uk/STApps/HTMLColorToy.cab
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gbd951:
Hi!

So I've been searching the forum looking up how to disable the windows mobile screen lock.

It turned on for some reason, and now I can't seem to turn it off.

I'm running windows 6.1

Any ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ebichuman:
I wish I could help you. The same thing happened to me. I'm using the latest Shaks rom (lite version) with latest pointui on top using the pointsense v2 suite. I hadn't had any problem before v2 but I find it hard to believe that is responsible and I've used Shaks roms before and I've never seen anything like that. I've already tried disabling it using device lock settings in the rom but it still locks.

:confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] klippoth:
It is a pointui problem

7th post down the page has the answer:

http://community.pointui.com/topic/pointui-enabling-screen-lock-on-65
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] rebicell:
please Help...... i have htc p3450 after at upgrade windows 6.0 to 6.1 professional camera menu can not be opened (other menu all normal), how does road out it master.

explanation:

Windows Mobile 6.1 professional

CE OS5.2.19213 (Build 19213.1.0.4)

Rom version Monsterfly 1.0.1 WWE

rOM data 10/02/07

Radio version 03.18.90

Protokol version 4.1.13.60

IPL 1.11.0002

SPL 1.11.0000
[Wing, P4350 General] ivanmmj:
For all those who have flashed a ROM and now can't turn on your phones.

Today I had this happen to me. I believe it's being caused by the phone not seeing a os partition.

To fix it, it's really simple.

1. Hold down the camera button.

2. Press the soft reset button.

3. Flash another ROM.

Fixed.

lol

If your SPL is not 4.x.x.x, then search for Goldcard in the xda-wiki.
[Wing, P4350 General] Belisario:
Yes, that's probably the reason.

I also have the problem and would find a original ROM file because my SPL is 1.09. Otherwise it should work with Goldcard.

Yeah, that's the only way to do. Only you find your original ROM of your provider is another chance to get your Herald back to life!
[Touch Pro CDMA] jfizz88:
I have a sprint touch pro, and i want to kno how to connect an incoming call to the other line. Im alerayd in one call, somone else calls me i pick it up, but then i want to connect the 2 lines. get it? does anyone kno how to do this? Ive alreayd searched the forums, and i already know how to make a conference call the by ME callin both, but thats a hassle sometimes